More wonders from London
It feels like it was six months ago already, but three weeks ago I was walking around at 100% Design with my friends Bob Borson and Veronika Miller . 100% Design was one of the featured events of London Design Festival and I was there thanks to the sponsors of Blog Tour 2011 . 100% Design takes place at the large but manageable Earl's Court Convention Centre in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London.
I saw all sorts of cool stuff at a hundred% Design and it became the proper blend of furniture, fabrics, lighting fixtures, surfaces and appliances. However, what stopped me in my tracks turned into this:
That's a concrete induction cooktop and it's part of a concrete kitchen from Vienna-based Steininger. Here are their photos of their Betonküche, German for concrete kitchen .
Much like the Pryolave integrated induction cooktop I wrote about earlier , this concrete induction cooker throws out all preconceptions when it comes to cooking appliances. Who says appliances need to look the way everyone expects them to and who says they need to be made from the usual materials?
Add to that that this entire kitchen (besides for the wood counter) is included in 8mm concrete veneers and I changed into in love. The Betonk?Che was designed by means of Martin Steininger whom I met. Thanks to Veronika and her language abilities, Martin defined his creation with the delight of someone who's made something sport changing. My German consists of little extra than "Ich spreche ein wenig Deutsch [I speak a little German]" and had Veronika no longer been there I'd by no means were capable to tell the man how amazed I turned into by using his advent.
If you want to look at some cutting edge Austrian design, look over Steininger's website .